Hunt for gunman after double shooting

Dec 22 2008 by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Huddersfield town centre shooting

POLICE are hunting a gunman who shot two people during an early morning altercation.

A 19-year-old man was shot in the lower leg while a woman received a gun shot wound to her foot after the incident around John William Street.

Both needed hospital treatment and the teenage boy required surgery to his leg.

The 19-year-old remained in hospital in a comfortable condition, while the woman was released over the weekend.

The area around John William Street, where they were discovered by police, was closed off on Saturday morning while police investigated.

Huddersfield Parish Church was also sealed off, as well as the Flying Circus pub on Cross Church Street.